Indicted Georgia Trump electors can't take case to federal court
A judge ruled that Cathy Latham, David Shafer and Shawn Still can't take their 2020 election cases to federal court. They were indicted alongside Donald Trump
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A judge ruled that Cathy Latham, David Shafer and Shawn Still can't take their 2020 election cases to federal court. They were indicted alongside Donald Trump
Former Department of Justice official Jeffrey Clark, State Senator Shawn Still, former Georgia GOP Chairman David Shafer and Coffee County elections official Cathy Latham all wanted to be tried in federal court.
Scott Hall, a Trump supporter who is among the 19 people charged in a racketeering case involving the former president, is the first defendant to plead guilty.
His decision comes after Mark Meadows, his former chief of staff, tried unsuccessfully to move his own case from state to federal court.
A federal judge denied a motion made by a former Department of Justice official to move his case in the Georgia election indictment to federal court. Jeffrey Clark is one of 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, to be indicted in a 98-page document handed up in August. Attorneys for Clark argue that he was acting within the scope of his official duties when he helped Trump try to overturn his 2020 election loss in Georgia.